Last week while I attended the PTO meeting at Chopstick’s school, they announced that the school district had decided to add Mandarin Chinese to the foreign language curriculum starting with 5th grade.  They said the decision was based on current trend, and that Chinese is going to be one of the more useful languages in the world.  This was definitely good news to us, considering most families in our school district are non-Chinese.  On another hand, I feel a little bit of pressure.  Being one of the few Chinese families in school, my kids will definitely have a certain expectation of them to excel in these classes.  I know I am thinking way too far ahead, since Chopstick is only in kindergarten, but it’s never too early to plan ahead, right.

Anyway, coincidently, there was an article on New York Times last week that talks about this Chinese trend allover the country.  Pretty interesting stuff.  The estimation is that roughly 1600 schools in America now teach Chinese compared to 300 about a decade ago.  I am always proud to be Chinese, and now I am REALLY proud.